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On Monday, former UFC middleweight champion Rich ‘Ace’ Franklin decided to officially announce his retirement. Franklin is a legend in the sport, known as the guy who went from being a high school match teacher to a UFC champion. The guy who earned his nickname, ‘Ace’, for his uncanny resemblance of actor Jim Carrey, went...

Former UFC light heavyweight champion and current middleweight fighter Vitor Belfort is gearing up for his next fight, a trilogy match with Dan Henderson in November. Ahead of that fight the fight has stayed busy on Instagram, sharing photos and videos of his training. The fighter looked noticeably different before his last fight, a title...

UFC strawweight Felice Herrig is making headlines for what she’s done outside of the octagon. The fighter’s photo shoot for ‘Muscle And Fitness’ has been making its way around the MMA world, with fans pretty blown away with her photos. Herrig hasn’t been in the octagon since her loss to Paige VanZant back in April,...

Rafael dos Anjos and Anthony “Showtime” Pettis met in the octagon at “UFC 185” in March 2015 to decide the fate of the UFC Lightweight Championship. Pettis’ second defense did not go as planned as Dos Anjos dominated their five-round fight to win the belt by way of unanimous decision. Since then, the two have...

There are casual fans, then there are diehard fans like THIS guy. He made the decision to get Conor McGregor tattooed onto his body and it’s actually pretty decent! TDD of The UG posted a pic of his new tattoo below: Conor McGregor’s popularity seemed to have sky-rocketed after he won the UFC Interim Featherweight...

Felice Herrig has been a bit of a journey-woman in mixed martial arts. While fellow female fighters Ronda Rousey, Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino, and Gina Carano get credited for being pioneers of women’s mixed martial arts, Herrig did her part in fighting around the country with the likes of Bellator and Invicta. The strawweight built a...

“UFC 192” is fast approaching and it is stacked from top to bottom! UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Daniel Cormier is getting ready to defend his title for the first time against Alexander Gustafsson in the main-event of the card, but that isn’t the only major light heavyweight clash taking place on the main card. Rashad...

Gegard Mousasi invested a lot of time, energy and money for his fight with Uriah Hall at “UFC Fight Night 75”. When Mousasi went down in the second round with a spinning heel kick and jumping knee, he was visibly emotional and crushed during the post fight interviews. A fan took to social media to...

Gegard Mousasi’s path back toward the top of the middleweight division was brought to a screeching halt at “UFC Fight Night 75” when he stepped into the octagon with Uriah Hall. Mousasi seems to be struggling to capture the magic in UFC he once had in DREAM when he reigned supreme as the light heavyweight...

While attending an MMA event in Dagestan, which was streamed on UFC Fight Pass, former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was interviewed and asked about his future in the UFC. Silva responded by saying that he expects to fight in April of next year, on the same card as heavyweight champ Fabricio Werdum, and also...

Some news from the boxing world, as the highly anticipated fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury as been scrapped from it’s original date. The fight was set to go down on Oct. 24, but Klitschko just recently announced that he has to postpone the fight because he has suffered an injury. Man, we just...

On Saturday night UFC heavyweights Josh Barnett and Roy Nelson will face off in the octagon at UFC Fight Night: Japan. The big guys will collide in the night’s main event. Nelson hasn’t seen action in the octagon since his loss to Travis Browne, all the way back in Dec. of 2013. In that fight...

UFC Fight Night: Japan goes down on Saturday night and the main event is something that has lots of fans excited. It’s never a good idea to blink during a heavyweight fight because of the power they bring into the cage. That is even more true in this fight, with Roy Nelson and Josh Barnett...

Bellator 142: Warren vs. Davis prelims are currently underway, right HERE, and we just saw a huge one punch KO. Heavyweights Dan Charles and Chase Gormley went to battle and it was quite the war. Both fighters landed some big shots. However it was Charles who landed the colossal punch while Gormley was against the...

On Friday night Bellator MMA returns with another event full of what are sure to be exciting fights. In the main event we will find out who the next bantamweight title challenger is when former champ Joe Warren takes on L.C. Davis. In the co-main we might just see the fight of the night between...

Former UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao has decided to move up to featherweight (145lbs). That’s according to Matheus Aquina, (a fighter manager best known for representing Bellator’s Pitbull brothers) who made the announcement this morning on Twitter: “Renan Barao said on a local TV news that he’s moving up to Featherweight and looking to fight...

In a recent report it was revealed that three weeks prior to UFC 152, an email containing Vitor Belfort’s drug test results, which showed extremely high levels of testosterone, was emailed out from the UFC to several manager and fighters, on accident. The UFC then quickly worked to retract the email, telling recipients to ignore...

Former WEC and UFC lightweight Anthony Njokuani recently took to Facebook and posted a statement in response to all the claims that Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig uses racial jokes and made african american fighters feel uncomfortable while he was at Team Alpha Male. Njokuani, a longtime friend of Ludwig, decided to share his thoughts and said...

The Bellator 143 prelims will air right here on BJPENN.COM. They kick off at 6:30 PM ET and wills stream below. You cant watch all the action right here until the main card kicks off on Spike TV at 9PM. In the main event of the evening we”ll see former bantamweight champion Joe Warren take...

Brye Anne Russillo will fight on Oct. 3 at Aggressive Combat Championships. She will be battling for the 150 pound title. She goes into the fight with a 1-1 record, hoping to make it 2-1. Russillo, a pastry chef, recently spoke with mymmanews.com about her upcoming fight, why she started competing and about the negotiations...

Stud Show Radio (formerly Team Alpha Male Radio) is a biweekly MMA podcast that airs Tuesday and Thursday right here on BJPENN.COM. The show features hosts Justin Buchholz and Chris Carlino aka Sir Studboy talking to callers and guests about all the latest stories in MMA and beyond. Guests from Team Alpha Male appear on...

Are you trying to wrap your mind around Fedor’s decision to once again forgo a contract with the UFC? Well, it sounds like he had quite a few reasons to do so, like 2.5 million reasons to do so. According to a report from veteran and well trusted journalist Dave Meltzer, the fighter is set...

On Friday night, live on Spike TV, Bellator 143 will go down and feature a main event between two top bantamweights, with former champ Joe Warren taking on L.C. Davis. The fight could very well determine the next title challenger. In the co-main we are likely in for a war when former UFC fighters Kendall...

Ryan Couture may have simply been known as “the son of UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture” when he made his professional mixed martial arts debut in 2010, but the lightweight is starting to step out of his father’s shadow and create a unique following of his own. While his father competed mainly for the...

At Bellator ‘Dynamite’ MMA legend Tito Ortiz took on undefeated light heavyweight champion Liam McGeary in the night’s main event. Early in the fight it looked like everything was going Tito’s way. He got a quick takedown and started working his top game. It seemed like might be another Tito Ortiz ground and pound clinic,...

Forbes put out their Top 100 ‘Highest Paid Athletes In The World’ list earlier this week and there were a total of 0 MMA fighters included. Well, Fortune, and American business magazine, just put out their list, ’40 Under 40,’ and guess who found their way onto it? UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey managed to...

Former UFC light heavyweight and current Bellator MMA fighter Phil Davis made quite the debut this past weekend at the massive ‘Dynamite’ event. Davis was one of four fighters in the one-night tournament. Davis took out former champ Emanuel Newton in the first fight, advancing to the final. In the other first round fight, ‘King...

“The Baddest Man on the Planet” Joe Warren has his sights set on what he feels is rightfully his: The Bellator Bantamweight Championship. First, Warren will have to make his way through former WEC fighter L.C. Davis this Friday in the main-event of Bellator 143 in Hidalgo, Texas. Long before names like Josh Thomson, Phil...

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